---
title: Chefs Overview
sidebarTitle: Overview
description: Overview of the different chefs available in Chonkie
icon: user-chef
iconType: solid
---

Chefs are simple classes that automatically prepare data for future usage. They are designed to make preprocessing and data transformation easy and reusable.
<Info> Chefs are available only in Python </Info>

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="TableChef" icon="table" href="/oss/chefs/tablechef">
    Extracts tables from markdown text and prepares them for future usage.
  </Card>
  <Card title="TextChef" icon="file" href="/oss/chefs/textchef">
    Processes plain text files and returns structured Document objects.
  </Card>
  <Card title="MarkdownChef" icon="markdown" href="/oss/chefs/markdownchef">
    Processes markdown files, extracting tables, code blocks, and images into a
    MarkdownDocument.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

